228 RECOKliS UF THE AUSTRALIAN MLSEUM. 



Oil his return to Seotlaud he again entered into business em- 

 ployment, and in September was elected Suiierintendent of 

 the Govan United Piesbyterian Church Sabbath School at the 

 early age of twenty-six. His second voyage to Sydney 

 appears to have been taken cliiefly for health reasons. He 

 left Liverpool in April, 1879, in the ship " Gvjie'" accompanied 

 by a bi-other, Mr. T. C. Sinclair. Tliey arrived in July of the 

 same year, and Mr. S. Sinclair again took up mercantile 

 pursuits, until his attention was called to the vacant position 

 of Secretaiy to the Tiustees of the Australian Museum. As 

 the successful candidate he was appointed on the 8th Septem- 

 ber, 1882,^ and on 6th October, 1891, also undertook tlie duties 

 of Librarian and Storekeeper. ^ 



In July, 1885, Mr. Sinclair was granted leave of absence to 

 visit Great Britain, and it was during this visit that the writer 

 had the pleasure of making his acquaintance. 



In April and May, 1894, the Secretary visited Eiromanga, 

 New Hebrides, as the guest of his close friend, the Rev. Dr. 

 H. A. Robertson of that island, when he succeeded in 

 obtaining some valuable Ethnological specimens; during his 

 absence the writer acted as his locum teneiis. 



In March, 1906, sudden and severe illness overtook him, and 

 iu consequence a i"ather extended absence from official duties 

 became necessary. 



Mr. Sinclair was pre-eminently a philanthropist — the one 

 object of his life was to advance the wellbeing of his fellow 

 men, regardless of creed or social position. In the prosecution 

 of this self-denying object, he, in 1880, accepted the Superin- 

 tendentship of the St. Peters Presbyterian Sabbath School, 

 North Sydney. Whilst so engaged he became interested in 

 the Children's Ministering League, and was also the first to 

 originate the Boys' Brigade in New South Wales, in 1896; in 

 1905 was formed the "1st Sydney Company " as inaugui-ated 



1 Mmutes, 8th Sept., 1882, p. 414-. 

 ••i Ibid., 6th Oct., 1891, p. 70. 



